Excursion to museums and archaeological excavations

The G. Ferraresi Civic Archaeological Museum is located in the historical center of Stellata, inside the Ariosto House, reachable in a few minutes from our facility, where you can learn about the curiosities related to this family!

As the museum’s website tells us, the exhibition is divided into four rooms, corresponding to the “piano nobile” of Casa Ariosto. Room I recounts prehistory and protohistory of the area, starting from the Neolithic site of Fornace Grandi di Bondeno (4th millennium B.C.) to the Terramara of Pilastri in the Bronze Age (16th-13th centuries B.C.). Room II preserves evidence from the Villanovan and Etruscan periods (Chiesuol dei Mosti necropolis and other sites, Iron Age, 8th-3rd centuries B.C.). Room III discusses the Roman age, with the stele and trousseau of legionary Titus Julius Urbanus, found at Settepolesini, and other objects. Finally, Room IV collects other Roman, medieval, and Renaissance materials, including objects found in Stellata during excavations for the Pilastresi Idrovora in 1928. A dedicated showcase is being set up to house some of the Last Glacial Maximum faunal artifacts from the Settepolesini quarry.

We encourage you to visit their website (https://www.museostellata.it) for opening hours and other information, or you can contact the front desk!

Distance: 4 minutes by bicycle

As their website tells us, the Po River World War II Museum is a center of the memory of the war events that took place in the territories along the great river during World War II. The museum collects original films, photos, documents and memorabilia belonging to the period from the first air raids in 1944 until the crossing of the front in April 1945. Felonica played an important role as it was centrally located with respect to the river crossings of the retreating German troops and later with respect to the Anglo-American arrival at the river.

We encourage you to visit their website (https://www.museofelonica.it) for opening hours and other information, or you can contact the front desk!

Distance: 28 minutes by bicycle

As their website tells, in Alto Polesine, exactly in Bergantino, the “Historical Museum of Jousting and Folk Performing Arts” was born in 1999. The Museum finds its reasons for being precisely in the history of the town, which has been linked for many decades to the traveling show tradition and the world of the Fair and Luna Park. If you would like to follow us, we will tell you a good, engaging story with a happy ending.

We encourage you to visit their website (https://www.museodellagiostra.it) for opening hours and other information, or you can contact the front desk!

Distance: 1 hour and 20 minutes by bicycle

The Pilastri Terramara is a Bronze Age archaeological site located in Pilastri di Bondeno. Named “I Verri,” it is characterized by a frequentation that can be traced back to a terramaricolo habitation, spread over more than a hectare and marked by a perimeter ditch, traces of which have been recognized thanks to geomagnetic prospecting carried out by Dr.Sandro Veronese (1994) and verifications currently in progress. In 2014, a three-year agreement was signed between the Superintendence for Archaeological Heritage of Emilia-Romagna and the Municipality of Bondeno for the investigation and enhancement of the site, to be carried out in collaboration with local associations and an interdisciplinary team of scholars from the Universities of Padua and Ferrara.

We encourage you to visit their Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/scavi.pilastri/) for opening hours and more information, or you can contact the front desk!

Distance: 40 minutes by bicycle